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build me a good mousetrap
Posted by amybyrd21 • 10/16/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: build a better mouse trap, catch it now.
I need yall to come up with a good mouse trap. The more strange the better. It is corn picking season here and the mice come in the buildings by the tons. The one in my living room jumps the traps, stays away from the posion I set up behind the entertaiment center. Build away. I want to catch this little mouse alive or dead!
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Dry corn on cob laced with poison. Just be sure to keep the roosters and stuff away. -
how about a piece of cheese laced with a mild sedative with a tiny mouse bed next to it? He'd be crazy not to take you up on your offer. -
Oh, sticky traps always work well too. You can cut the mice off and reuse the traps... sorry to sound cruel, but it's true.
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Dammit, just use the diagram from the old board game "Mouse Trap" and you're done
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ingredients for a mouse trap that worked for me.
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no.1. an old fashioned perspex plinth covering for a hi fi [circ 70s]
no.2. one 8inch stick
no.3. one piece of string about 10 inches
no.4. one 1 ounce piece of cheddar cheese
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Method
tie piece of string to top of stick
tie piece of cheddar cheese to string
hold stick in upright position
carefully balance perspex plinth cover for an old fashioned hi-fi [circ 70s] over stick with string and cheddar cheese attached
switch off light and go to bed and wait for loud bump as perspex plinth cover for old fashioned hi-fi [circ 70s]collapses on top of mouse when he/she tries to nibble cheddar cheese-loud bump may be accompanied by alarmed squeakings and frantic scratching.
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At this point in proceedings speed is a vital factor for if now well and truly captured mouse manages [as he/she surely will] to get so much as the tip of his/her nose underneath perspex plinth cover for old fashioned hi-fi [circ 70s] he/she is gone.
The correct proceedure now is to leap out of bed, turn on lights [these actions will act as an immobilising factor in the mouse's endeavours to escape]squat on hands and knees beside perspex plinth cover for old fashioned hi-fi [circ 70s] wait for the tail of encaptured mouse to protrude from under perspex plinth cover for an old fashioned hi-fi [circ 70s] and using index finger and thumb of right hand [unless you are left handed in which case the index finger and thumb of left hand is acceptable] make a bold grab for the end of the protruding tail, take a firm hold and yank from under perspex plinth cover for an old fashioned hi-fi [circ 70s] and in one sweeping movement hoist captured mouse up to the light for inspection.
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Get pied piper.. see if you can sponsor a visa for him -
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would leave holes in my wood floors. BB gun had been sugested by hubby since this thing only comes out at night when I am in the livingroom on my computer. It even squeask at me to call my attention to it.
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holes can always be patched.
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There is an awesome one on Tom and Jerry. If... you can afford an anvil, this is for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iP8WjXE3FU -
My wife went out and bought some glue traps a few years back, and I caught one poor little mouse in one of those and threw the rest away. I mean there is no point torturing the poor little things.
So I was about to buy a bunch of live catch and release traps and trying to figure out just how far I'd have to haul them off so they didn't just come right back...
When we saw an ad for this sonic thing you plug in that emits a high frequency sound we can't hear and they don't like. Bout two and plugged em in at opposite ends of the house. That was three winters back and we haven't had a mouse in the house since.
I like that solution, myself.-
I wondered if those work, good to know!
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Get some cats!-
cats suck! They are worse than mice!
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Not true!
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you want THAT in your house?
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that IS in my house
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ugh!
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but he's a rescue!
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fine...tug at my heartstrings!
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he was scheduled to die at 2 weeks!
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cant have cats hubby is allergic to them That is to say all cats hate him. The last one I had balled up around his arm for no reason andhe had to have stitches. He put his hand in my car to pick up the cat and she attached. He never petted the cat before that or had anything to do with her. He wasnt being mean he was just reaching and she attacked. I am not aloud a cat after that. But the good news I caught three tonight with PB on toast.
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Cats never hunt rats, especially big ones
BTW what's PB on toast?
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Why not get the silent (to humans) rodent siren that actually wards them away from your property? Call an exterminator to scare them out of the house and then close off the entry points.
I read all those books about Country Mouse goes to the city and City Mouse comes to the country. Think about Mickey Mouse and Tom and Jerry. And even Mighty Mouse. Oh poor mices.
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